I started the regimen about three years ago and I haven't gone a day since where i haven't used it. At first my skin was really dry and flaky (i have extremely sensitive skin though) and the jojoba oil helped with that (i still use it every night and morning in my moisturizer and i have baby soft skin now!!) after 3 months of using it, i had zero acne just dry skin and eventually the dry skin did go away. I have extremely clear skin now, i'll get the odd zit here and there but who doesn't? These products changed my life! Though it was hard at first, it worked wonders in the end. If you're just starting this product, keep going!!!!!!!! I promise it will work for you!!

I like to use this product in conjunction with acne.org bp. I use the [link removed] 2.5% all over my face and only use the persa-gel 10% as spot treatment. This bp is thicker and more drying and very effective. Also this bp is more convenient since it can be bought at local drugstores.

I have been using this 3 step system for 1 year now and to be honest, I have noticed major results but my acne isn't completely gone yet. I'm 15 years old and I have had acne for 4 years now, I need it gone and it has really lowered my self esteem and confidence but with this product it definelty helped me quite a lot. I have tried almost everything on the market, proactiv sucked btw....anyway, this is a great product and I'm sure over time it will clear up my acne or at least keep it balanced and in control :)

I have always had ridiculously severe acne since my young teens- blackheads, white heads, strange under the skin blood and puss filled bumps. I've tried everything I could think of. I've used proactiv, medications prescribed by dermatologists, many acne scrubs, every kind of soap possible, a bunch of home remedies, and nothing worked. Recently, I was sent mary kay face bar scrub by my grandmother, which helped a little but not much. I started using this alongside the mary kay bar, and my skin has improved drastically in no time. It said it would take two weeks to see a change, and its not eevn been a week! The color is more even, the breakouts have lessened. I still have a pimple or two, but not nearly as many as I had. The pimples are much smaller, the blackheads are nearly gone, and my face looks better than it ever has. Even putting the cream on before sleep, the largest pimples, even the under the skin ones, have shrunk and stopped hurting. The only downside is that it does make my skin dryer, causing dry and dead skin, especially over the pimples. That's okay for me, because my face is naturally crazy oily but it may be harsher on those with not-so-oily skin. However, I freaking love this medicine! Even missing a pill doesn't affect me too much, and unless I have the urge, I only use the ceram once a day. There's not much cream if you have full-face breakouts, so it may be good to buy a second cream- I got acneterminator at the same time as this, and as far as I've checked, they're the same, so can be used interchangeably with the pills. Really, I love this. Its the best thing I've ever used.

I've tried a whole litany of acne treatments like most people on here and while this cleanser isn't the perfect miracle I've been realizing it's wrong to search for, it's pretty amazing. Certainly the best thing I've found. I wash with the C&C blackhead clearing scrub in the morning, then again in the night followed by this cleanser because salicylic acid alone doesn't do much for my acne and it's the only constant thing I've found to mostly keep away my acne. It's 10% BP but I have dry skin and it does not dry it out one bit. I only have one thing against it which is that like many C&C products, it's fragranced, but that hasn't seen to have broken me out.

I started the product with clear skin, thinking it could be softer or have less blackheads. My skin stayed clear for the first couple of days, but soon began to break out. My face has so many pimples now it isn't funny, and the pimples that came up while using Proactiv have turned into scars and will not go away. I hate this product and makes things so bad. I hope my face will go back to the way it was because this is ridiculous.

I first was prescribed BP at 17 in a 10% solution, which didn't work well at all. For the next few years I was prescribed tetracycline, oxytetracycline, erythromycin, zinc, and finally roaccutane (UK), which cleared the worst of my acne, but eventually it came back to bug my life! After fairly good success with tea tree stuff from the Bodyshop I decided i wanted a more permanent solution to my acne so I started using the regimen in January 2013. 9 months later my life has changed in the sense that I do not need to worry about acne anymore, I still get the occasional spot but only the same as pretty much everybody. Its freed me from worrying and cut my time down on how much i need to care for my face! Brilliant product.

I kept the account for over a year as a gift to my daughter. When closing the account, the customer service rep indicated I had to wait until my last payment month. I did. I was charged another two months. I called to get the issue corrected and the manager did not seemed interested in correcting the problem, only offered an very rude "sorry" saying they would not correct the issue. I have a paper trail of my payments and have filed a case against them with them with the US BBB. Because of the poor customer service, I would not recommend their product. I am reading other comments...same issue!!!!!!!

First I placed my order, sent a check, that was cashed quickly, but I never received the product. I called after one month and 10 days, they said that they were enable to process my order and didn't explain why. I was told that a refund check had been sent to me, so I went on and purchased another brand at my local drugstore. two months from the date that I sent Proactive my order/check, I called again to see where my refund was, and they told me that they decided to cancel the refund and send me the kit. Guess what, first I don't want it anymore, and I still waiting, it has been almost 3 months since I placed my order. No I do not recommend this product.

A lot of people say how proactive is a scam and how it makes acne worse if you stop using it. Well, duh, of course acne would be worse if you stop using any acne product, because the thing about acne, is you have to use acne products consistently. I think that acne would come back after stopping the use of any benzoyl peroxide product. I started proactive about a year ago, and I stopped using it 3 months ago, and just started using it again (i stopped using it 3 months ago because I was travelling and didn't bring it with me). So yes, after I stopped using it, my face was a disaster. But I think that it's only because I didn't use ANY acne products for like a week, and washed my face once a day with regular soap. My face was a disaster, yes, and later on I got it in control with benzac ac 5%, which is the only thing I with BP that I could find while I was travelling out of country. But I really think that any acne products require consistent use, and of course, if you quit, acne will probably come back (unless you grew out of it). And also, I must admit, that I use a whole lot more of the repairing treatment than just a "thin layer". I use a moderate amount of it, just like Dan recommends (using benzoyl peroxide). Also, the toner has glycolic acid, which is an AHA and helps give the skin a clear texture and sometimes even helps white heads. I'm not sure about the cleanser though, because right now I also started experimenting with oxy 10% benzoyl peroxide cleanser to see if that would be more effective than the proactiv 2.5% benzoyl peroxide cleanser. I also am experimenting with 2% salicylic acid cleansers right now and combining them with proactiv toner and repairing treatment. I don't order proactiv on their site; I buy it at the mall. They actually have a little stand at my mall and I can buy proactiv for cash, and they have a person there recommending how to use proactiv and stuff. So I'm not just buying it from a machine, and I'm not ordering it online. If you want to get proactiv, be sure to check their website for their selling locations. It might be at a mall near you, and that way you can get it right away in person instead of ordering it and having them bill you every month. I wouldn't recommend ordering on their website, but if you have to order it online, just order it from amazon. That way you won't get billed extra or anything. And I recommend using more of the repairing treatment on your face than they recommend. Use a moderate amount of the repairing treatment. Also, a good thing is, is that it doesn't really dry my face. I know a lot of people say that it dries their face, but idk, it doesn't dry mine. Perhaps my face got used to 5% benzac ac over the summer (and that did dry my face), and now my face is relaxing because proactiv has only 2.5% benzoyl peroxide. But, I remember when I used it in may and the whole year last year, I did not really need to put on any moisturizer at all. maybe only occasionally. I think this is because the repairing treatment combines benzoyl peroxide with moisturizer. Idk though. Might work for some but not for others. Here is my recommendation on proactiv: -Not sure about the cleanser. You could try it. Other cleansers may be more effective, but really depends on your skin. Try experimenting with the cleanser, if you don't like it, then experiment with other cleansers. -Toner is good. I like it because it has glycolic acid and might help get rid of white heads and black heads. Also helps even out skin tone. -Repairing treatment is great, because it has moisturizer mixed with benzoyl peroxide, and it is effective for me. Doesn't dry my skin out, but everyone is different. Use more than they recommend though, use a moderate amount of repairing treatment on your face. Proactiv has cleared my face before, and I am starting to use it again after a summer of using other treatments. I have mild/moderate acne by the way. When I'm not using acne treatments, it's obviously moderate, but when I am using acne treatments, it is mild.